The Geneva Convention (eBook)

The Hidden Origins of the Red Cross

Angela Bennett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2006
240 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-9582-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the story of how two unknown young men who loathed each other founded the Red Cross, an organisation that has done more for mankind than any other. Why did the crowned heads of sixteen states meet in Geneva in 1864, on the invitation of these virtual nobodies, to sign a world-changing convention? Drawing on confidential papers and private documents, and including a 'day in the life' piece on the Head of Operations, Near East, for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Angela Bennett gives us the full story of the Convention. She reveals the frustrations and complications that nearly destroyed it in the early years, the bitter antagonism between the brilliant administrator Moynier and the flamboyant Dunant, and probes the bank scandal for which Dunant was convicted.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.8.2006
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Code of Practice • Geneva • Geneva Convention • geneva, geneva convention, treaty, human rights, code of practice, treatment, humanitarian, humane, protocol, protocols, international law, treatment in war • Humane • humanitarian • Human Rights • International Law • Protocol • protocols • Treatment • treatment in war • Treaty
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-9582-8 / 0752495828
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-9582-8 / 9780752495828